Levin August von Bennigsen

Levin August von Bennigsen (10 February 1745-3 December 1826) was a general of the Russian Empire.

Biography
Bennigsen was a Hanoverian who fought in the Seven Years' War and served in the army of the Russian Empire from 1773. He fought against the Ottoman Empire, the Polish Rebels of Tadeusz Kosciuszko in 1794 and fought the Persians later that year. In 1798 he assisted in the conspiracy to kill King Paul I of Russia and he was made Governor of Lithuania in 1801 by Alexander I.

In 1806 he fought in the Napoleonic Wars, losing at Pulutsk, the Battle of Eylau, and the Battle of Friedland, the last of which ended the Fourth Coalition war. He redeemed himself with his role in the Liberators' War of 1813, assisting in the offensive that eventually defeated Napoleon.